CobrastanJorji

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   by CobrastanJorji 10y ago

   I would very much like to see an example of a major company publishing its desired specific ratios of races and genders.
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   by CobrastanJorji 10y ago

   I'm no expert, but isn't "let's just hire only women for a while to balance out the numbers" going to violate a whole bunch of employment regulations?
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   by CobrastanJorji 10y ago

   Pretty sure that's not the case. When I worked for IBM back in the day, their interview did in fact involve an actual IQ test administered online as a first screening step.
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   by CobrastanJorji 10y ago

   And the answer, of course, is "Justice." It's like being charged solely with resisting arrest.
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   by CobrastanJorji 10y ago

   > A sidebar on Wacom’s ArtPad, from 1995—“If you’ve ever sketched with a pencil, you’ll be able to use ArtPad”—made me wonder why it took Apple so long to roll out its Pencil stylus for the iPad. Because in 1995, the handwriting recognit
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   by CobrastanJorji 10y ago

   Ultimately, I'm afraid this is due to the difference in laws between owning a physical copy of a disk and having the rights to redistribute digital media. Once Netflix had a DVD of some old movie, it was effectively free for them to ho
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   by CobrastanJorji 10y ago

   Is this technically a quine? It uses its own file as an input. I think that may technically disqualify it from quineness.
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   by CobrastanJorji 10y ago

   That MIGHT be true, but it's not apparent from their statement. Just because it costs N to build a product on technology X and costs M to migrate an existing product to technology Y does not mean that it would have cost N + M to implem
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   by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

   I agree. Contrariwise, even though I'm an Amazon Prime member, it very rarely occurs to me that there are videos on Amazon that might be "free" for me to watch. I just can't help thinking of it as a place to BUY things.
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    I watched "Deadpool" on a flight the other day. It warned me that it was edited for content, and I thought "hrm, that's a shame, but given that there may be children around me on a flight, I suppose that's reasonabl
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    Contempt is a weird power in general, especially when it's used for reasons like "disrespecting the judge." If I am disrespectful to the governor of my state, or if I'm disrespectful to a police officer, or if I'm d
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    Well, the story is probably popular here and on Reddit because it makes people suspicious of each other and also makes us, as commentators, feel important. Somebody is being paid a lot of money to get at us! But the real reason that this is
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    Same here, got 11%-24% slower in most regions, and only 3% faster in US-EAST-1. Sao Paulo got 60% faster, though. Regardless of my results, I've gotta hand it to Amazon on a really kickass speed comparison page. That's a great use
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    This sort of thing helps explain projects like the Google Video Quality Report ( https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/ ) or the Netflix ISP Speed Index ( https://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    Fellow Schwab customer here. Unlimited ATM rebates has been great. I was surprised at bow nice it felt to whip out my Schwab card next to the scary little free-standing ATM machine at the cash-only shop with some ridiculous $4.00 ATM fee. F
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    There are two ways that I know of: Method 1: Purchase a copy of Maniac Mansion on eBay or such. Download a single copy of the data files. Load and play them in ScummVM. Method 2: So, funny story. See how Day of the Tentacle Remastered is fo
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    Ultimately, over the exceptionally long term, as automation removes the need to work, the solution is to move to a leisure-based society in which everyone is given equal stipends and allow optionally working up to, say, 10 hours per week to
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    THIS is the thing that makes you worry about where Amazon stands in relation to government interests? Amazon has a rich history of rolling over to government interests whenever their profits may be at risk. A great example is the Wikileaks
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    by CobrastanJorji 11y ago

    > This is a little bit of a roundabout way to give you ownership of Clef, but the reason we give options instead of straight stock is that it keeps you from being taxed on the stock until you actually use it. If we gave you $10,000 worth